[HN Gopher] Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to tea... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python Author : throwaway47292 Score : 98 points Date : 2022-02-24 17:54 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (punkjazz.org) (TXT) w3m dump (punkjazz.org) | wmichelin wrote: | "Dad can I please play with my toys?" | | "Not until you learn python you little shit" | groovy2shoes wrote: | You had me at "20 sided dice". | jrgd wrote: | Simple Efficient Fun | | I'm a fan. | ghostly_s wrote: | This may well be an effective way to learn to code but god, it | sure doesn't seem like a way to have any fun. | dang wrote: | Please follow the Show HN guidelines: | https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html as well as the site | guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. | I'm sure you meant no harm, but comments like this have a way | of poisoning the culture, especially when they get upvoted to | the top of the page, as they often do. | throwaway47292 wrote: | apparently fun is subjective :D | block_dagger wrote: | I suggest simplifying the content of the cards. Love this idea! | throwaway47292 wrote: | Thanks for the suggestion, I made those specifically with my | daughter, and are tailored to improve her level. | | But you are right, in the future I will make decks with | different difficulties. | emacsen wrote: | May I suggest that instead of Python, if the aim is for | children, you consider a block based language such as Scratch | or MakeCode? | | I have a nephew who is ~8 and is doing absolutely amazing | with Scratch in his classroom. He's making little mini-games, | understanding loops, variables, and he's learning the all- | important skill of debugging. | | When/if he transitions from a block based programming | language to one that's purely textual, I feel like that | transition will be smooth based on his existing understanding | and skills. | | So if the aim is puzzles for kids, having a setting that they | are more familiar with, such as blocks, might make it easier. | | Just a thought. | whoomp12342 wrote: | here we go, right back to punch cards... | ByThyGrace wrote: | > playing card game to teach your kids | | > "Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange" | | Just how old and already well-instructed is said daughter I | wonder. Certainly not as young and novice (and sparsely | attentive) as my ten year-old who's also learning Python. Because | he wants to, I should add. | trykondev wrote: | This is so neat! Seems like a really fun game, and I'm also a big | fan of the very straightforward & minimal website. Would | definitely buy one of the decks you're planning to sell :) | throwaway47292 wrote: | Thanks! | | The 300 decks arrived yesterday, and we were super excited with | my daughter. Today we played multiple times and its super fun. | Even though we played many times when I printed the game on | normal a4 paper, having the real professional cards really make | a difference. | | I plan to also make lisp, c and javascript decks so we can | explore more paradigms. | prashnts wrote: | Just curious if you could share how old is your daughter. | | I have tried teaching coding (several approaches, but | eventually on Scratch) my 9yo nephew, but ran into many | issues. For example, trying to debug a counter, I thought | it'd be fun if I asked "hey, what's 7 - 2", and he went "it's | 5, duh" and then I went "and what's 2 - 7", ... and he went | "that's not possible!" | | Turns out his math teacher hasn't yet introduced negative | numbers! I had to go back to number line... | | Anyway, what you've done is really cool! I'm sure once he's | old enough it might prove to be very useful. | throwaway47292 wrote: | She is almost 11 now, but we are coding every day for | almost a year now (I am logging the progress here: | https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids). Its often | we go to the number line :) but because we usually make | games, and it was easy to get negative numbers when you go | out of the screen, so it "clicked". | | The whole game was her idea and we started working on it | about 5 months ago. | prashnts wrote: | That's awesome, the end result seems enjoyable even for | us adults! :) | pbronez wrote: | that repo is awesome - you should do a ShowHN for that! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-24 23:00 UTC)